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Enormous Cracks In The Earth Are Appearing Globally: International News Blackout. Strange Sounds in the Sky. 10 Censored News Topics and Events. Pop Culture Censorship is the suppression of public communication that is considered to be objectionable, harmful or sensitive. Many different types of censorship exist, including moral, military, political, religious and corporate. Project Censored is a research group that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.

From these, they compile an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country’s major national news media. Chiemgau Impact Crater On October 16, 2004, the journal Astronomy published an online article that discussed a new-found strewn field of impact craters in southeastern Bavaria, Germany. According to the Chiemgau impact research team, physical and archeological research has placed the impact event between 700 and 300 B.C. which is during the Holocene epoch.

In December 2010, WikiLeaks came under intense pressure to stop publishing secret United States diplomatic cables. Top 10 Recent Cases of Strange Behavior. Weird Stuff Strange and bizarre news stories are fun to read. People are intrigued by world events that are shrouded in mystery. In many cases, the strange occurrences give the reader a conflict between what is presumed normal in society, and the facts of the case. In August of 2010, Buffalo police made a routine traffic stop on a 51-year-old man named Gary Korkuc, in the state of New York. In 2010, an American construction worker named Gary Brooks Faulkner traveled to Pakistan in order to conduct a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden. In early 2010, Royal Dutch Navy sergeant Dick de Bruin lost his camera while diving off the coast of Aruba.

Verkhoyansk is a small town located in the Sakha Republic of Russia. In 2011, strange reports began to surface from village residents. It has been noted by specialists that wolves are very careful in choosing the most nutritious food source that is the easiest to obtain. The bandit then demands money by handing the teller a note.

10 Theories on the Sun Space and 2012. Space In the near future, Earth could be faced with the threat of severe atmospheric activity, including solar explosions, near Earth asteroids, and geological anomalies. The Earth is currently traveling through the geological epoch known as the Holocene period. An epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is based on the study of rock layering. The Holocene began approximately 12,000 years ago and was preceded by the Pleistocene. The end of an epoch is characterized by extreme climate change and mass extinction. During Earth’s transition into the Holocene, the planet experienced the Quaternary extinction and the Younger Dryas global climate cooling event.

Everyone is familiar with the current 2012 doomsday predictions. Holocene Impact Working Group The Holocene Impact Working Group is a collection of scientists from Australia, France, Ireland, Russia and the US, who hypothesize that meteorite impacts on Earth are more common than previously supposed. Top 10 Mysteries Surrounding Ancient Aliens. Mysteries Ancient aliens is the idea that aliens visited earth in the past. The idea of ancient aliens is not a new one either. Imagination is one of the most powerful tools in humanity’s evolutionary struggle for survival. As a race, we are hardwired to consider important concepts, such as the creation of life on Earth and the history of people on this planet. The idea of evolution has been used to describe the gradual change of traits that living organisms undergo over time, which is related to the environment, but it doesn’t explain how the biological cells of human’s first ancestor were spawned.

The idea surrounding ancient aliens is a basic one. This concept is related to the religious practice of a cargo cult, which can be seen in modern day pre-industrial tribal societies. It has been proposed that, with the current age of the universe and its vast number of stars, if the Earth was typical, extraterrestrial life should be common. Modern Technical Advancement. Top 10 People Shrouded in Controversy. Mysteries Pejoratives are words or phrases that bring out contempt or distaste in the human psyche. The words elicit a specific emotional reaction in people.

Some good examples include the words liberal, punk, hacker, fascist, extremist and conspiracy theorist. In the 20th century, the phrase conspiracy theory began to be used for any accusation that is fully unsupported by conclusive evidence and scientific fact. This includes any suggestion that does not follow the commonly accepted beliefs of society. Conspiracy Theory: The alien agenda. Phil Schneider stands out in the world of alien conspiracy.

During the construction, the group of builders stumbled upon a large nest of huge Grey aliens. He then continues to discuss the alien agenda. Schneider says that several world governments are aware of the alien threat, and that they are actively fighting the creatures. George Bush (biblical scholar) Conspiracy Theory: The implementation of Christian Zionism. Bob Lazar and John Lear Dr. Top 10 Witnesses Who Died Suddenly. Crime A witness is someone who has firsthand knowledge about an event. An expert witness is a person who, by virtue of education, training or experience, is believed to have expertise in a particular area. A different type of witness is an eyewitness, who is a person that saw a specific event first hand. A witness can be extremely important for court proceedings. They are vital for news articles that expose government secrets.

Witnessed Event: U.S. On September 11, 2001, David Wherley Jr. was the commander in charge of the 113th Fighter Wing at Andrews Air Force base, in Maryland. On June 22, 2009, David Wherley and his wife Ann boarded a Red Line Washington Metro train (#214) in Northeast Washington, D.C. A preliminary investigation found that the accident occurred when the replacement of a track circuit component failed, which prevented certain signals from being reported. Witnessed Event: North Philadelphia Shooting Witnessed Event: American Airlines Flight 77 Witnessed Event: U.S. 10 More Conspiracy Theories.

Mysteries Conspiracy theories – I can’t get enough of them! Fortunately there are so many floating about that we have been able to give you not one, not two, but now three lists of theories that many people believe with all their might. Be sure to read the earlier lists if you haven’t already and feel free to add any conspiracies missing from all three to the comments here. It makes the list because it appears in almost every alien or UFO conspiracy theory ever devised. There are television shows purporting to explain just what goes on there, one even including an interview with “a disgruntled employee,” who is provided with black-out lighting, but no vocal distortion, and who states that “it is a testing ground for experimental aircraft.

I considered putting the Aurora Aircraft on this list, but since its existence is tied so closely to Area 51, I use Area 51 as a catch-all of sorts. But the conspiracy theory goes on to claim that humans were unable to come up with these technologies. Top 10 Obscure Conspiracy Theories. Mysteries In the past we have published four complete lists of mainstream conspiracy theories – a subject which is always popular.

This time we are adding a list of theories that are held by a much smaller number of people (which, fortunately for us, results in some slightly more bizarre ideas). Some Rastafarians maintain that a white racist patriarchy (“Babylon”) controls the world in order to oppress the African race. They believe that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia did not die when it was reported in 1975, and that the racist, white media (again, “Babylon”) propagated that rumour in order to squash the Rastafari Movement and its message of overthrowing Babylon. Other Rastafarians, however, believe in peace and unity, and interpret Babylon as a metaphor for the established “system” that oppresses (or “downpresses,” in Rasta terminology) groups such as Africans and the world’s poor.

Martin Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945?) Was a prominent Nazi official. 1. Jamie Frater. 10 Long Awaited Conspiracy Theories. Weird Stuff This is our third place winner in the Listverse launch competition. This list looks at 10 more conspiracy theories that may, or may not, link to various theories Listverse has already covered. By popular demand, here are 10 awesome examples of governmental cover-ups, global cataclysms on the verge of occurrence, and supernatural shenanigans that defy explanation.

Read, if you dare, but keep an eye over your shoulder: Someone may be watching… Everyone knows about Earhart’s ill-fated voyage around the world. No one ever saw her or Noonan again. Project Phoenix is an independently-funded foundation, intent on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have been the most naturally gifted genius, in any field of human activity, that the world has ever seen, or shall see. Apricot Pits Cure Cancer The Man in the Iron Mask A lot of time has passed since Louis XIV was the King of France.

The national Security Agency does exist. Rushmore’s ’secret room’ | The Black Hills Travel Blog. Paranoia strikes deep. Especially on the Internet. Case in point: Yahoo Answers. Someone in the office came across this thread dealing with “secret rooms” inside the heads of Mount Rushmore. “I seem to recall sometime in my past that I watched a program that showed ‘secret’ government room in at least one of the heads on Mount Rushmore.

At the time of the airing, they were no longer used therefore no longer secret…. A number of people pointed out, correctly, that there is a Hall of Records, an unfinished chamber in the wall of the canyon behind the heads of Mount Rushmore. If you believe the “Team America: World Police” cartoon was fiction, then maybe you’ll believe that Mount Rushmore is not hollow. It’s a 20-foot- tall tunnel carved 70 feet into the rock face. In 1998, a portion of Borglum’s Hall of Records plan was completed. Other than that, there’s nothing too mysterious about the Hall of Records. Others on the Yahoo site, however, are not so sure. Talk about hollow heads. 10 More Fascinating Conspiracies.

Mysteries Rapidly catching up to our unsolved mysteries lists is our series on conspiracy theories. Thanks to the hard work of FlameHorse we now have fifty complete conspiracy theories listed on the site. This is likely to be the last in the series for quite some time. To view the older lists, go here. Denver International Airport Denver International Airport is the largest airport in the United States, and the third largest in the world. But theorists claim that it is designed to resemble Indian teepees, in an effort to appease the dead Indians buried here. It is a fact that the murals were commissioned by Wilma Webb, wife of Denver’s mayor, and that she conducted a Masonic dedication of the airport just before its opening.

Of all the New World Order conspiracy theories, this one sounds the most plausible. Their bodyguards at these meetings are privately-hired mercenaries. Whenever the phrase “single world government” crops up, conspiracy theorists whip out the Revelation. Karen Silkwood. 10 More Mysterious Conspiracy Theories.

Mysteries To date we have around seven conspiracy theory lists or lists containing entries related to such. This new list is a welcome addition as it has been some time since our last one and they are always extremely fascinating topics to read about. The world is full of conspiracy theories – many of which contain elements of mystery. This will definitely not be the last list of this type. Theories surrounding the Ararat Anomaly arose from a single black and white photograph taken in 1949 by a USAF recon plane performing routine intelligence gathering of the Ararat massif, which was in an area of military interest at the time.

Conspiracy theorists, many of them Biblical literalists, claim that the odd-looking object if Noah’s Ark, which the Bible states “came to rest on the mountains of Ararat” after the Great Flood. The anomaly appears to be a very rounded elongation teetering on the edge of a slope, buried under ice and snow, and it has so roused the curiosity of the U.